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Still, the grammar of Algol 68 is less complicated than most modern programming languages and can be described in a couple of pages. It had to fit on machines w
by jhbadger 9y ago
Still, the grammar of Algol 68 is less complicated than most modern programming languages and can be described in a couple of pages. It had to fit on machines with trivial amounts of memory by today's standards, after all. And it's said of Smalltalk that its grammar could fit on a postcard (somewhat of an exaggeration, but not by much).
- eesmith 9y agoSure. But in the context of "X is to programming languages like Latin is to European languages", X=Algol is certainly a better fit then X=Smalltalk. I completely agree that the premise of the analogy is a stretch, and can accept that people want to reject the premise (it's not quite as bad as "What kind of vegetable are you?"), but I don't see why fractallyte's claim for Smalltalk is stronger.